| True area | On the old Mercator map | Distortion vs truth |
|---|
| Uzbekistan | 447,381 km² | 805,286 km² | 1.8× |
| Greenland | 2,154,754 km² | 25,447,645 km² | 11.8× |
| Africa | 30,370,000 km² | — | 1× |
Old maps drew Uzbekistan at about 805,286 km² km². The truth is 447,381 km² km² — a difference of 80%% that school atlases carried for centuries.